Live Through This: rock nyc’s Top Concert Picks For The Week Of June 3rd, 2019
comic by Shari Saffioti
Max’s Kansas City, along with CBGB’s, was a legendary nightclub where first the Andy Warhol scene thrived, and then, punk came to stay. O caught Johnny Thunders there once, Sid Vicious as well. From 1965 to 1981, the Park Avenue bar, restaurant, and concert venue, was as cool a hang as anyone has ever been. In 1975 Peter Crowley took over booking and the place never looked back for an instant. Next weekend you can relive the glory days at Arlene’s Grocery, and if you are only planning on showing up once, make it Saturday so you can see Jahn Xavier And The Bowerytones. Jahn was the fifteen year old Voidoids bassist who went on to form the terrific New Wave soul band The Nitecaps. The last time Jahn performed at Arlene’s was six years ago (here), a 90 minute masterpiece, since then he has married and moved to the suburbs so to get Jahn back iun town is reason enough to go.
THURSDAY:
DEBORAH FROST & Nigel Monte Mogg-Rock with the Max’s Kansas City Dancers (in leotards) !!!
THE INVADERS
THE ROUSERS
SEA MONSTER
MICKEY LEIGH’S MUTATED MUSIC
THE DOTS
DIVE BAR ROMEOS
GINA HARLOW & THE BOWERY BOYS
DOWNTOWN PIDGEONS
BILLY STARK STONE & RICO BLYTHE
ZYMOSIS
FRIDAY:
DEBORAH FROST & Nigel Monte Mogg-Rock with the Max’s Kansas City Dancers (in leotards) !!!
NIHILISTICS
DON BLACKCAT & FRIENDS
LUIGI & THE WISEGUYS
MAGIC TRAMPS
RUBY & THE REDNECKS
THE BRATS
SIMON CHARDIET
CRAZY CLEVER
THE BRUNETTES
JONES CRUSHER
SATURDAY:
DEBORAH FROST & Nigel Monte Mogg-Rock with the Max’s Kansas City Dancers (in leotards) !!!
JOHN COLLINS
THE WALDOS
NEW YORK JUNK
CAPTAIN KRUD
JOEY PINTER BAND
STUMBLEBUNNY
JAHN XAVIER & THE BOWERYTONES
PUMA PERL & FRIENDS
ZAINGREA
SIC F*CKS
VIOLATORS
(all acts subject to change)
Monday – Duff McKeegan and Shooter Jennings – Irving Plaza – The Guns N Roses bassist shows his sensitive side on his new album Tenderness, with any luck he will also show his raucous side on stage.
Monday – Ian Hunter – City Winery – Without Mott
Monday – An Intimate Evening With Macy Gray Live On Broadway – Iridium
Tuesday – Coheed And Cambria & Mastodon: The Unheavenly Skye Tour – Stony Pony Summerstage
Tuesday – George Clinton w/ Parliament Funkadelic – Summer Stage Central Park – The farewell tour unless George runs out of money
Tuesday – TWENTY ONE PILOTS – THE BANDITO TOUR – Barclay Center – The last album was iffy, but live they are indisputable.
Tuesday – Ari Lennox – Bowery Ballroom
Tuesday – Lewis Capaldi – Irving Plaza
Tuesday – WFUV Presents David Gray: Gold In A Brass Age Tour – Beacon Theatre – As soulful singer songwriters go, Gray is among the best in the business
Tuesday, Wednesday – Bikini Kill – King’s Theatre – If this was at the Beacon…
Tuesday – Tyga live at Up & Down NYC 2019 – Up & Down
Thursday – blackbear – Dead 2 The World Tour – The Rooftop At Pier 17
Thursday, Friday, Saturday – EMPIRE OF THE SUN – Walking On A Dream Decade Anniversary Tour
Thursday – Pentatonix: The World Tour with special guest Rachel Platten – MSG – This might have camp value… resale tix going for $25
Thursday – JR JR – Elsewhere
Friday – Sweet Honey in the Rock – Produced by Jill Newman Productions – Sony Hall
Friday, Saturday – Blues Renditions of The Rolling Stones Chicago Plays The Stones – Iridium – Sounds intriguing…
Saturday – New York Salsa Festival – Barclay Center – I was disappointed last year…
Saturday – Machine Gun Kelly – Playstation
Sunday – Beach House – Brooklyn Steel
Sunday – India.Arie
Sunday – Jahn Xavier And The Bowerytones – Treehouse at 2A – A full set plus an amorous special guest…
